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A simple ticker written within the MooTools framework

How to use

Javascript snippet to initialize the class:

window.addEvent("domready", function() {
	var T = new SimpleMooTicker({
		container: document.id("wrapper"),
		step: 5,
		periodical: 100
	});
});

HTML snippet:

<div id="wrapper">
	<ul>
		<li>First ticker message <a href="#">and a link</a></li>
		<li>Second ticker message <a href="#">and a link</a></li>
		<li>Third ticker message <a href="#">and a link</a></li>
		<li>Fourth ticker message <a href="#">and a link</a></li>
		<li>Fifth ticker message <a href="#">and a link</a></li>
	</ul>
</div>

Options

container: (string||object) reference to div dom element container | required
autostart: (boolean) wether the scrolling of the ticker should autostart or not | default: true
animation: (string) wether the ticker text should "scroll" or "fade" | default: "scroll"
steps: (integer) how many pixels to the left should the ticker take each iteration when "animation: scroll" is chosen | default: 5 pixels
duration: (integer) amount of miliseconds between each iteration | default 100 miliseconds
	NB! the duration should NOT be lower than 1000 when chosing "animation: fade"

Methods

The following methods are availible publicly:

animate(): perform the desired animation between each ticker message
start(): starts animating the ticker
stop(): halts animating the ticker

Notes

Version 1

* Ready for release